Policing hate and bridging communities: a qualitative evaluation of relations between LGBT+ people and the police within the North East of England

Pickles, James

doi:10.1080/10439463.2019.1588269

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“…These include responses to calendar (or other discrete) events that occur on a regular cycle such as Christmas, Halloween or the festival of Diwali (Cohn andRotton 2003, McDowall et al 2012). The political nature of large-scale cultural events such as pride parades or carnivals often create a need for increased protective policing in the form of public order policing, and community engagement, and can generate organisational demand in terms of marketing and internal communication (Pickles 2019). The impact each of these events have on police demand are once again highly dependent on context, and their impact may not be limited to discrete spikes in demand.…”

Section: Drivers Of Demandmentioning

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Understanding the concept of ‘demand’ in policing: a scoping review and resulting implications for demand management

Laufs

Bowers

Birks

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Policing and Society

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As literature around policing and society grows, there is increased use of, and focus upon the concept of police 'demand'. The concept itself, however, is ill-defined and no consensus exists about how it should be measured. This paper addresses these issues by undertaking a scoping review of literature on the topic, and by exploring how demand has been conceptualised in both academic and practitioner communities. The review reveals that while key interdependencies between police demand and supply are widely discussed, they are often analysed in isolation. To add to the academic discussion of police demand, the paper introduces a comprehensive conceptualisation including the various forms police demand can take and the different manifestations of drivers for police demand. Subsequently, it outlines several approaches that might be levied to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of demand management approaches. These include the consideration of trade-offs that need to be considered. For example, there is a need to balance any resources allocated to deal with proactive demand reduction and that necessary for (reactive) response. Considering the dynamics of police demand andby necessitysupply through the lens of complex adaptive systems we propose potential ways forward that capitalise on this framing.

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Section: Drivers Of Demandmentioning

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“…This form of failure demand can often be traced back to a lack of training -for example, in the engagement with minority communitiesor an already existing level of distrust between the community and the police (see e.g. Hera 2017, Bullock and Johnson 2018, Pickles 2019.…”

Section: Failure Demand and Service Qualitymentioning

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Understanding the concept of ‘demand’ in policing: a scoping review and resulting implications for demand management

Laufs

Bowers

Birks

et al. 2020

Policing and Society

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“…In recent times, however, there have been significant shifts in how the public, and indeed police, think about and respond to LGBTI people. This is evidenced in the resources police organizations have invested in rebuilding relationships with LGBTI people (Dwyer & Tomsen, 2015; Field, 2007; Gillespie, 2008; Miles-Johnson, 2016; Pickles, 2019; Tomsen, 2009). Of course, these initiatives do not necessarily mean that police now unreservedly protect LGBTI people—LGBTI people still experience police violence in the contemporary moment (Russell, 2016, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Visibility appears to be a crucial component of these forms of relationship building between police and LGBTI communities, particularly as a way of increasing the awareness of these programs among LGBTI people (Pickles, 2019). When we talk about visibility, we mean how someone or something is able to be seen and observed—it is about see-ability, noticeability, perceptibility, and viewability.…”

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“You’d Just Cop Flak From Every Other Dickhead Under the Sun”: Navigating the Tensions of (In)visibility and Hypervisibility in LGBTI Police Liaison Programs in Three Australian States

Dwyer

Ball

2020

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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This article examines the different ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) police liaison officers in three states of Australia conceptualized and problematized the public visibility of LGBTI police liaison services. In a climate where LGBTI police liaison services are a prominent model for building relationships between police and LGBTI people, this article considers, through interview data with LGBTI police liaison officers, these officers’ perceptions of the role that the visibility of these programs played in their success. Specifically, it explores the tensions and difficulties for officers and LGBTI communities resulting from the general invisibility of liaison officers themselves (and, by extension, these programs), as well as the problems that increased visibility of these programs might bring to officers, to LGBTI communities, and to policing work itself. Although enhancing the visibility of liaison services may be an important goal, this research suggests that careful consideration is required regarding how this visibility is produced and maintained, particularly given the concerns that officers reported about the potential risks posed by adopting new forms of visibility, including the risk of hypervisibility. This article questions the conventional view that increased visibility is unproblematic and is the key to the success of such programs.

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“…It is beyond the scope of this article to detail every force's regional practice. However, research on policing in the North East of England confirms that there are dedicated LGB&T liaison police officers who specialize in anti-LGBT+ crimes and try to liaise, regularly, with voluntary sector LGBT+ community and youth groups (Pickles, 2019). The police response to hate crime is of course contextual and varies from country to country.…”

Section: Hate and Hate Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

Designing hate crime reporting devices: An exploration of young LGBT+ people’s report needs

Pickles

2019

Journal of LGBT Youth

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This paper reports on an exploratory study, which gathered LGBT+ young people's (aged 15-22) experiences and perceptions of hate crime. Two design-led workshops were conducted in the North East of England, with the aim of identifying the reporting needs of LGBT+ young people. Participants in the first workshop were asked what types of 'hate' scenarios they would report to the police. Participants in the second workshop were asked to design hate crime reporting devices. Young people were ambivalent about reporting their experiences to the police as their victimization was intimately tied to people they were connected with (parents, school peers, acquaintances). They highlighted a variety of response needs when reporting victimization. This article argues that acts of bullying and acts of anti-LGBT+ hate crime are symmetrical in their tangibility. LGBT+ youth victimization is currently framed, within scholarly discourse, as a bullying issue involving peer victimization. However, the criminological discourse on LGBT+ adult victimization is framed as hate crime. The data provided bridges this gap by conceptualizing youth victimization as a form of hate crime, an important contribution in recognizing the report needs of young LGBT+ people.

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Policing hate and bridging communities: a qualitative evaluation of relations between LGBT+ people and the police within the North East of England

Abstract: PICKLES, James (2019). Policing hate and bridging communities: a qualitative evaluation of relations between LGBT+ people and the police within the North East of England. Policing and society.

Cited by 15 publications

References 55 publications

Understanding the concept of ‘demand’ in policing: a scoping review and resulting implications for demand management

Understanding the concept of ‘demand’ in policing: a scoping review and resulting implications for demand management

“You’d Just Cop Flak From Every Other Dickhead Under the Sun”: Navigating the Tensions of (In)visibility and Hypervisibility in LGBTI Police Liaison Programs in Three Australian States

Designing hate crime reporting devices: An exploration of young LGBT+ people’s report needs

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